Discussion

• @engineering_bae Taylor Poindexter on x

  “The Black employee responded: “You said, 'white supremacy doesn't exist.' That's a factual lie. It's not true.” I teared up reading that part b/c I know what it's like to be one of the few Black ppl in a corporate room & have to defend minorities. https://www.theverge.com/...

• @briannawu Brianna Wu on x

  This is a stunning piece. The jerk bringing political tension to Basecamp is a conservative senior employee who endlessly posts Brietbart in workchat. He had the audacity to repeatedly tell a black employee white supremacy didn't exist. And leadership did nothing. https://twitter…

• @mattetti Matt Aimonetti on x

  Reading the details of the Basecamp meeting that went down on Friday and I don't know why I'm surprised, but what a train wreck! If you are a leader and wonder how to avoid making the same mistakes, checkout @projectinclude https://www.platformer.news/ ...

• @karenmcgrane Karen McGrane on x

  A must read, especially if you haven't unfollowed @rjs yet https://www.theverge.com/...

• @monteiro Mike Monteiro on x

  Oh boy. “I don't believe in a lot of the framing around implicit bias. I think a lot of this is actually racist.” https://www.theverge.com/...

• @s_m_i Stacy-Marie Ishmael on x

  “If they don't think it's an issue, it's not an issue. If they don't experience it, then it's not real.” This is of the more basic facts about how most tech and media companies are run, and it will not change while the people currently in power remain. https://www.platformer.news…

• @reckless Nilay Patel on x

  More ⁦@CaseyNewton⁩ reporting from inside Basecamp, which, among many other things, seems like all the evidence you'd ever need to forbid policy change by public blog post https://www.theverge.com/...

• @amyhoy Amy Hoy on x

  holy shit https://twitter.com/...

• @brosandprose Ella Dawson on x

  Now we know why so many Basecamp employees have decided to quit following the all-hands. https://www.platformer.news/ ...

• @mtaibbi Matt Taibbi on x

  Madness... This reads like the minutes of a meeting from a Bolshevik sausage factory in 1922. https://twitter.com/...

• @beijingdou Josh Ong on x

  I used to respect Basecamp, but really disappointed that their leadership kept a list of Asian customer names that sounded funny to them. https://twitter.com/...

• @carnage4life Dare Obasanjo on x

  The blow by blow of how Basecamp's all-hands meeting fell apart makes the argument for why discussing politics at work is unworkable. A white conservative says white supremacy doesn't exist, a Black employee gets upset and management asked to take sides. https://www.theverge.com/…

• @juliaangelenpr @juliaangelenpr on x

  This @Basecamp thing seems shocking but it's also kinda every organization: just sit there and do your work, don't give feedback, don't ask questions, and if you need an opinion on something, we'll give it to you. https://twitter.com/...

• @emilygorcenski Emily G on x

  Long story short, executives bent over backwards to protect a senior leader with a history of sharing content from the functionally white supremacist outlet Breitbart, and then employees got mad when he tried to gaslight them publicly. https://twitter.com/...

• @_danilo @_danilo on x

  The incredible mediocrity of taking one of the most pivotal meetings of your career from your fucking bed No one should ever listen to a word of advice from these guys ever. again. https://www.platformer.news/ ... https://twitter.com/...

• @cindygallop Cindy Gallop on x

  'The employee called for the founders to denounce white supremacy. “That would be the bare minimum for me,” they said. “I'm not here to share my personal views on anything,” Fried said...Hansson remained on mute.' @caseynewton https://www.platformer.news/ ... @basecamp

• @thedextriarchy Adi Robertson on x

  It's still wild to me that this happened. Like just such an unnecessary and disrespectful way to belittle your employees at a small company. https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @lhfang Lee Fang on x

  Lol why are so many highly paid, highly educated workers embracing this buffoonish circular firing squad behavior? Defamation culture extends well beyond the media https://www.theverge.com/...

• @kvlly Kelly Vaughn on x

  Funny how the loudest person in the room is suddenly silent on one of the most important calls in the history of his company. https://www.platformer.news/ ...